How do I go about switching Fedora variants? Somehow I have managed to get “Cloud Edition” in my /etc/os-release file. I’m currently at Fedora 34 but I’ve been successfully upgrading this host since at least 29. The host is mostly used as a file server, but occasionally as a KDE desktop. I doubt the variant makes any difference when upgrading an existing system. But anyway,
Is there a list of all the variants somewhere?
How do I switch from “Cloud Edition” to, say, the KDE desktop one?
May be you are looking for Fedora release identity packages. You could search it with dnf search fedora-release-identity-\* and it will give all available identities for Fedora variants.
My understanding after we installed the desktop environment group we want, we could use sudo dnf swap fedora-release-identity-OLD fedora-release-identity-NEW then remove the old desktop environment group. But I never did this and prefer to install new variant to avoid unnecessary troubleshooting.
Which did nothing but update /usr/lib/os-release, as I expected, and removed a file called “/usr/lib/swidtag/fedoraproject.org/org.fedoraproject.Fedora-edition.swidtag”.
I don’t think the variant has any effect except at install time. Dnf is going to update whatever software it finds at upgrade time, regardless of the variant.